In an interview last year with Philadelphia Daily News reporter Will Bunch, Barack Obama said something that seemed to signal the presidential hopeful might prosecute George W. Bush and his staff for crimes committed during the eight-year death march also known as the 43rd presidency of the United States of America.

Organizers thus joked that when seeing Bush in his '43rd' baseball cap they would relish the thought that it was in recognition of his being the 43rd person to receive the John Cardinal O'Connor award, named after the late, heroically pro-life Cardinal of New York.